Guess it’s Not Payback Time for Greece; Brit Wants to Save the Fiscal Day for Greece; diSinging the JetBlue-s for Baggage Fees;

Greece frightening…

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Will the third time be a charm? Fiscally-challenged Greece has asked for yet another bailout, this time to the tune of $27 billion. Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has indicated that repayment for $1.8 billion of a $270 billion tab is not gonna happen, much to the dissatisfaction of the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and the European Commission who all ponied up the cash for the cash-strapped European nation. In fact, Greece isn’t even getting the customary 30 day grace period. There are those in Greece who weren’t down with suggestions made by its creditors who called for “austere” measures and a more stringent repayment schedule. Lucky for Greece, however, the country is still not expected to officially go bankrupt. Phew. There’s also that other payment due July 20 in the not-so-small amount of $3.9 billion. That’s probably not going anywhere either. As for Alexis Tsipras and his July 5 referendum, he subtlety indicated that he’ll bow out – as in, resign – should the Greek people decide to vote in favor of the measures, for which he does not care. What a guy.

Oh and one more thing…

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If you’re heart goes out to Greece and you feel the need to help the country in its loan repayment – because you don’t know how else to spend your disposable income – then you’re in a luck. A British man found a way for you to throw out your hard-earned money by donating to a fund that would “help” mitigate the European nation’s fiscal woes. Out of the goodness of his heart, or maybe because it seemed funny at the time, Thom Feeney established an Indiegogo account to help raise 1.6 bullion euros. He reasoned that if every European chipped in three euros, then the people will have sorted out this mess instead of leaving it to those pesky “European ministers flexing their muscles.” Laugh all you want but Feeney has so far raised over 250,000 euros from over 16,000 contributors.

And then there was one…

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Just when you thought JetBlue really was different than all the others, the airline with a relatively decent customer satisfaction rating went ahead and broke our consumer hearts by announcing that, it too, would start charging to check bags. This leaves Southwest Airlines as the only airline who has not jumped on the baggage fee bandwagon. Well, at least not yet. Beginning today, if you book a ticket with JetBlue, and it happens to be the cheapest ticket, expect to pay a $20 fee for that first checked bag. If you aren’t a light packer and find yourself needing to check an additional bag, expect the price to go up to $35. If you have more than that, well, maybe you should reconsider air travel. In any case, that $20 fee is only for those checking their bags online or through a kiosk. Once you decide to check that bag at a counter via an actual living and breathing human being, watch the price go up by $5. If you’re fotunate enough not to have to book the lowest tier ticket, then congrats. You can continue to get that first checked bag on the house – or rather, aircraft.